ePub The Homeowner's Complete Tree Shrub Handbook: The Essential Guide to Choosing, Planting, and Maintaining Perfect Landscape Plants download

by Karen Bussolini,Penelope O'Sullivan

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Karen Bussolini,Penelope O'Sullivan

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978-1580175708

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1580175708

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English

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Storey Publishing, LLC; 1 edition (October 31, 2007)

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Trees and shrubs can bring regal silhouettes and spectacular foliage to any .

Trees and shrubs can bring regal silhouettes and spectacular foliage to any home landscape. This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know to design. The introductory section discusses how to use plants in the landscape, then moves on to choosing the right plant for the right place, with excellent lists of trees and shrubs for sun & shade, wet & dry soils, etc.

Penelope O’Sullivan, author Karen Bussolini, photographer Storey Publishing. The clean crisp photography by Karen Bussolini – be it of the exquisite curling bark of a paperbark maple (Acer griseum)

Penelope O’Sullivan, author Karen Bussolini, photographer Storey Publishing. Practical advice from a landscape pro and photos that reveal each plant’s charm, accurately portray what they look like and show how real-life gardeners across the country have used them in home landscapes. The clean crisp photography by Karen Bussolini – be it of the exquisite curling bark of a paperbark maple (Acer griseum). An uphill woodland path in three seasons, or an arborist in full-helmeted gear 20 feet up in a tree – reinforces the comprehensive treatment of the subject.

Start by marking The Homeowner's Complete Tree Shrub Handbook: The .

Start by marking The Homeowner's Complete Tree Shrub Handbook: The Essential Guide to Choosing, Planting, and Maintaining Perfect Landscape Plants as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. Trees and shrubs can bring regal silhouettes, delightful shade, and spectacular foliage to any home landscape.

Penny O’Sullivan gives trees and shrubs the respect they deserve in her lively, comprehensive book, The Homeowner’s Complete Tree & Shrub Handbook. Woody plants, she maintains, can be the heart and soul of the home landscape plan. Their contribution to the yard might include a springtime canopy of blossoms; colorful, delicious summer fruit; a regal year-round silhouette; rough and rugged bark; or seasonally changing foliage. Their presence is a soothing anchor in the ever-changing environment of a typical yard

The Essential Guide to Choosing, Planting, and Maintaining Perfect Landscape .

The Essential Guide to Choosing, Planting, and Maintaining Perfect Landscape Plants. By Penelope O'Sullivan. Photographs by Karen Bussolini. an all-inclusive guide to choosing, planting, and caring for these wonderful woody plants. The Journal Inquirer (Manchester, Conn.

Section 2: Choosing, Planting & Maintaining Trees and Shrubs. The final section of the book is the aforementioned tree and shrub dictionary. The middle section discusses everything from purchasing to planting, pruning, fertilizing and otherwise maintaining your trees and shrubs. Plant dictionaries are both evergreen (no pun intended) and out of date as soon as they’re published because new cultivars are constantly being introduced while others go out of production and disappear from nurseries. At the same time, it’s fairly rare for an entirely new genus and species of tree or shrub to find its way into commerce. A landscaper's encyclopedia. Here's the big, thick book on everything you want to know about trees and shrubs. St. Petersburg Times. Most gardeners are practical people who need a lot of information on a lot of issues. That’s why I really like this down-to-earth 416-page rundown on the ambitious topic of trees and shrubs. Harrisburg Patriot-News.

Penelope O’Sullivan authored the book while Karen contributed her photography talents

Penelope O’Sullivan authored the book while Karen contributed her photography talents. This is very much, as the title The Homeowner’s Complete Handbook: The Essential Guide, to Choosing, Planting and Maintaining Perfect Landscape Plants indicates, a Guide and a Handbook, not a plant encyclopedia. It’s curated and very focused.

an all-inclusive guide to choosing, planting, and caring for these wonderful woody plants. "This handbook is a source of inspiration and seasoned advice for making sound choices from the start and maintaining your plants as they develop and grow. Lexington Herald-Leader. One problem with garden books that try to say too much about everything is that they often end up saying too little about anything

The Homeowner's Complete Tree and Shrub : The Essential Guide to Choosing, Planting .

The Homeowner's Complete Tree and Shrub : The Essential Guide to Choosing, Planting, and Maintaining Perfect Landscape Plants.

Trees and shrubs can bring regal silhouettes and spectacular foliage to any home landscape. This comprehensive guide covers everything you need to know to design, plant, and maintain a beautiful and thriving woody garden. With detailed profiles of hundreds of tree and shrub varieties that include information on availability, size, hardiness, and special characteristics, Penelope O’Sullivan shows you how to use these plants to add structure and texture to your outdoor space. Create a vivacious landscape dotted with springtime blossoms, rugged bark, and summer fruits.

Blackbrand

After a recent talk by Karen Bussolini, this book’s photographer, I bought a paperback edition on the spot. I urge you to do the same if you plan to buy trees or shrubs for your garden.

I’ve used the book almost daily for a month now and the title and subtitle are stated accurately. This book is “complete” and offers “essential” information for gardeners of all experience levels. Check out the Table of Contents, index and back cover for yourself with Amazon’s Look Inside tool. Information is organized into bite-sized topics, charts, and scores of lists, such as Trees and shrubs with unusual textures, Bark standouts, Colorful evergreens, Native plants that attract wildlife, Deer-resistant varieties, etc. This handbook explains how to evaluate your home landscape and growing conditions, select quality plants (with the Buyer’s Checklist on page 79), plant them correctly and care for them afterwards. The Trees and Shrubs A-Z section describes each plant’s essential details and landscape uses, which sometimes includes companion plant suggestions. “All about” sidebars provide overviews of popular choices, such as maples, hydrangeas, magnolias and rhododendrons.

O’Sullivan’s friendly and frank writing style is akin to a chat with a trusted gardening mentor. You won’t feel as if you’re wading through a dry instruction manual. Bussolini’s photographs depict the book’s concepts with shots of landscapes that are achievable for this average gardener. Throughout, Bussolini’s photos beautifully showcase the 357 plants described. Her close-ups show unique plant features that lend multi-season interest to landscapes.

I wanted to address two points raised in other reviews: 1) I’ve seen no evidence that “plants had misprints.” 2) Latin names are used instead of common plant names in most books for the sake of accuracy. Plants are known by a variety of common names, much like some people have nicknames. The Latin name assures gardeners they’ve found the right plant when they see the Latin name on a plant tag. A good example of this is the small tree with the Latin name Amelanchier. The tree’s common names include Shadbush, Shadblow, Serviceberry, Juneberry and Saskatoon, any one of which you may hear referenced depending on where you live.

In summary, the combination of writing and photography raised my confidence and motivation to tackle an overdue landscape renovation. This was a purchase worthy of the limited space left on my gardening bookshelf.

Sudert

While browsing through tree and shrub books at Barnes and Nobles, this one by far was the most complete. So good I had to have it and bought it on Amazon. Not only does it give you regular text book definitions of everything, the author gives her personal opinions and incites (in my case Red Maples), which is hard to find. For ex. what shrubs/trees will work in what soils and what trees might be more acceptable to disease, and so on. Don't expect to have a detailed page for every single tree out there, but it is still a great resource and should have what your looking for. My only complaint is the Glossary. If you look up "Red Oak", you'll probably find "please look up (scientific name)". Unfortunately most tree/plant book's Glossaries are like this, so I am not going to blame the author. Since the publication date is relatively recent, the pictures are pretty decent.

Fordregelv

The best gardening books tend to be the ones in which the author is not afraid to be opinionated, and feels free to express affection or dislike of a plant, show a little personality, etc. This book fits that bill. I found the author's advice regarding techniques, landscape design, and plant selection to be practical and wise. The species references in the back of the book are quite detailed and the author has good tastes in plants. Wish more gardening books were this good.

Steel_Blade

This is one great book, full of a lot of pictures and suggestions, solutions to all your landscaping needs to create a beautiful well maintained, inviting yard that will be the an object of envious feeling of your neiborhood. This one book will help you plan, implement and accomplish your welcoming spot to all and shows
that you have taken the time to pursue through the use of this book as a starting point to a beatiful, well maintained paradise.

Malodred

Concise info based on region, type of shrub,tree plant etc etc. would recommend to anyone just getting into landscaping. Will be using it a bunch this spring

Perius

I would line this book up against any other one for great content and completeness. If you are a botanist, you might prefer a more academic, scholarly, highly detailed book, but for avid gardeners, this one is superb. I have used it in the Master Gardener's program in my State.

fightnight

Good general overviews, but very light on details

Great book for the landscaper and the gardener. A Very informative on the types and care of shrubs and trees.

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